Life, 1915-09-30 · page 12 of 45
Life — September 30, 1915 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct pieces of social commentary: **Top photograph**: Captioned "Beauties of Nature," it shows elegantly dressed people gathered outdoors, listing names including Mrs. Cottito Byent and others. The ironic title suggests satire about high society's pretensions. **Left cartoon**: Titled "Another Concentration Camp," depicts a military officer bayoneting what appears to be a small figure or creature within a circle. This references concerns about militarism and authoritarian control, likely criticizing military discipline or wartime policies. **Right text sections** discuss fashion during wartime ("War and the Styles"), noting the irony that while soldiers suffered, women's fashion remained frivolous. "The Unsubmerged Four-Fifths" appears to address class divisions and survival, suggesting commentary on economic inequality during the period. The overall tone critiques wartime contradictions between military sacrifice and civilian excess.
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BEAUTIES OF NATURE Reading from left to right: MRS, COTTITO BYRNE, MR. PARVENU PLUMP, MRS, OCTAVE SCHWINDLER, MRS. GATHERAN SPEND, MR. WHARTOR KADD, COUNTESS BAUT’N SOLDE, MISS NICOTINA DAZE-DOPE AND MR, WATT A. NASS Indefatigable Georgia F as much interest was felt in New York in the punish- ment of crime as is felt in Georgia, life and property would both be safer in this city. At least Georgia has zeal and doesn’t mind losing sleep and taking trouble. a ANOTHER CONCENTRATION CAMP War and the Styles S there any connection between war and the styles? If so, what is the reason why, with the biggest war on y, styles should be more decadent than ever? country is not at war. It has nothing at present to shudder at very much except the follies of its women. However, it is certainly interesting to observe that parallel with the feminist movement, which loftily claims for itself high ideals, should run the decadence in fashions— stoop-shouldered, shuffling, idiotic-looking girls, their va- cant stares and half-naked figures being much more pathetic than the half-starved working women of the lower classes. The Unsubmerged Four-Fifths F it is a question whether the Germans or the other people must be destroyed, we Americans are at least four-fifths favorable to the survival of the other people. W* are a nation in the making. That is to say, some of us make good while the rest of us make believe. comicbooks.com